Reference books:

• Space Mission Analysis and Design. W. J. Larson and J. R. Wertz (Editors). Microcosm Press, 1999.
• Space Vehicle Dynamics and Control. Bong Wie. AIAA, 1998.
• Spacecraft Thermal Control Handbook: Vol.1 Fundamental Technologies. David G. Gilmore (ed.) AIAA, 2002.
• Space Systems Failures. Harland, Shayler, Lorenz. 2005.
• Space Debris: Models and Risk Analysis. Heinrich Klinkrad. 2006.
• Orbit and Constellation Design and Management. J.R. Wertz. Microcosm, 2001.
• Spacecraft-Environment Interactions. Daniel Hastings & Henry Garrett. Cambridge Univ.Press, 1996.
• Hypersonic aerothermodynamics. John J. Bertin. AIAA, 1994.
• Modeling and Simulation of Aerospace Vehicle Dynamics. (2nd ed.). Peter H. Zipfel. AIAA, 2007.
• Deep Space Flight and Communications: Exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens. Claudio Maccone. Springer, 2009.
• Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines. Dieter K. Huzel and David H. Huang. AIAA, 1992.
• Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery from Space. Roger D. Launius, Dennis R. Jenkins, NASA
  Free download in EPUB / MOBI / PDF formats via NASA e-Books page
• Introduction to Astrodynamic Reentry. Lt.-Col. Kerry D. Hicks, 2009. (Free PDF online).
• Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion. P. Hill, C. Peterson. Addison-Wesley, 1992
• Rocket Propulsion Elements, 7th Ed.. G.P. Sutton & O. Biblarz. John Wiley & Sons, 2001
  Free PDF from MIT, albeit with many drawings cut away - it's better to read the 4th ed. as well
• Liquid rocket combustion instability. NASA, 1972. SP-194. Harrje D.T., Reardon F.H.
• Liquid rocket engine combustion instability. Progress in Aeronautics and Astronautics, vol. 169. AIAA; 1995. Yang V., Anderson W. (eds.)
• Dynamical Systems, the Three-Body Problem and Space Mission Design, Koon, Lo, Marsden & Ross, 2006
  Free PDF form Caltech
• Statistical Orbit Determination. B.D. Tapley, B.E. Schutz, G.H. Born. New York, Elsevier, 2004.
• Spacecraft Operations. Thomas Uhlig, Florian Sellmaier, Michael Schmidhuber. Springer, 2014. ISBN 9783709118023
• Deep Space Optical Communications. Ed.by Hamid Hemmati. JPL, 2005. Available online
• Handbook for limiting orbital debris. NASA, 2008 (expired in 2013). Still Online.
• Libration Point Orbits and Applications. J.Masdemont. 2003.
• Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion: Ion and Hall Thrusters. Dan M. Goebel, Ira Katz. Free PDF from NASA

• Principles of Space Instrument Design. A. M. Cruise, T. J. Patrick, J. A. Bowles, C. V. Goodall. Cambridge Univ.Press, 1998. ISBN 9780521451642.

• Deep Space Telecommunications Systems Engineering. Joseph H. Yuen (Ed.), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 1982, (JPL Publication 82-76) Online

• LEO on the Cheap: Methods for Achieving Drastic Reductions in Space Launch Costs. John R. London III, Lt Col, USAF. Research Report No. AU-ARI-93-8, Air University Press, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, October 1994. Free and Available here.

• Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students by Howard Curtis. Rentable as an ebook, purchasable in all formats

Manned exploration references, just in case someone needs them:

• Human spaceflight : mission analysis and design. Wiley J. Larson; Linda K. Pranke. McGraw-Hill, 2000.
• Human integration design handbook NASA, 2010.
• NASA STD-3001 Vol.1 Crew Health as of 2014-07-30
• NASA STD-3001 Vol.2 Human Factors, Habitability and Environmental Health as of 2011-01-10
• Space Psychology and Psychiatry. Nick Kanas, Dietrich Manzey. Springer/Microcosm. 2008.
• Fundamentals of Space Medicine. Gilles Clément. Springer, 2005.
• NASA Human-rating standards (2012 revision).

Model and amateur rocketry (someone's got to start somewhere!):

• How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid-Fueled Rocket Engines, Leroy J. Krzycki, Rocketlab / China Lake, CA., 1967
  Online source

Journals:

• AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics
• AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets
• Icarus
• Journal of the Astronautical Sciences
• Planetary and Space Science
• Acta Astronautica

• John D Clarke: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
• NASA: Key documents in the history of space policy
• Boris Tchertok. Rockets and People. Vol.1: part 1, part 2, part 3. Vol.2 Vol.3 Vol.4
• NASA History Office books (online)
• Carey McCleskey. Space Shuttle Operations and Infrastructure: A Systems Analysis of Design Root Causes and Effects (2005).
• Space Shuttle Missions Summary (NASA, 2011).
• Tom Wolfe. The Right Stuff. 1979.
• Apollo manuals from Ron Burkey.
• Stages to Saturn, Roger E. Bilstein. 1980.
• Taming Liquid Hydrogen: The Centaur Upper Stage Rocket, 1958-2002 (Warning: 320.5 MB PDF!)
• A brief history of the DoD space test program, ANSER, 1993.
• Project Orion : the true story of the atomic spaceship, George Dyson. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2002. ISBN 0805059857
• From Sputnik to space ports in 55 pages: The History of Spaceflight

• (age 4-8) Brian Floc: Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (48 pages)
• (age 5-7) Martha E. H. Rustad: The Exploring Space (6 x 24 pages)
• Linda McReynolds: Eight Days Gone (48 pages, 2012) ISBN 9781580893640.
• (age 7-11) Raman Prinja: Universe Rocks (4 x 32 pages, 2012) ISBN 9781848359345.
• Elise Gravel: Blast off with Doodle Tom (96 pages)
• (age 8-10) Heinemann-Raintree (publisher): Astronaut Travel Guides (8 x 48 pages)
• (age 9+) Mark Brake, Nishant Choksi: Really, Really Big Questions about Space and Time (64 pages)
• (age 9-13) Don Nardo: Destined for Space (64 pages)
• (age 9-13) Enslow Publishers: The American Space Missions—Astronauts, Exploration, and Discovery (6 x 48 pages)
• (age 10+) Ian Graham: 3D Explorer: Solar System (32 pages pop-up)
• (age 10-13) Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano, Michael Carroll: A Black Hole Is Not a Hole (48 pages)
• (age 10+) Clive Gifford: Out of This World: All the Cool Bits About Space (128 pages)
• (age 10+) Pamela Dell: Man on the Moon: How a Photograph Made Anything Seem Possible (64 pages)
• Kristen McCurry, Mat Edwards: How to Draw Amazing Airplanes and Spacecraft (64 pages)

• (age 11+) Eve Hartman, Wendy Meshbesher: Mission to Mars (56 pages)

• Review of children's space-themed books by Emily Lakdawalla

• Harry McSween and Gary Huss, Cosmochemistry
• Paul Schenk, Atlas of the Galilean Satellites
• N.N.Greenwood and A. Earnshaw, Chemistry of the Elements, (1ed., Pergamon, 1984), (2ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997, ISBN 978-0-7506-3365-9)

Design reference missions:

To be determined

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